Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▲ Jurisdiction
Bemis v. Williams 32 Tex. Civ. App. 393 1903 1 Texas
McCrea v. Marshall 1 La. Ann. 29 1846 1 Louisiana
Becht v. Martin 37 Tex. 719 1873 1 Texas
Worth v. Curtis 15 Me. 228 1839 1 Maine
McKinney v. Burns 31 Ga. 295 1860 0 Supreme Court of Georgia
Ferguson v. Sutphen 8 Ill. 547 1846 1 Illinois
Degant v. Michael 2 Ind. 396 1850 1 Indiana
State v. Moore 6 Ind. 436 1855 1 Indiana
Vance v. Vance 59 Ky. 581 1859 1 Kentucky
Lynch v. Clarke 1 Sand. Ch. 583 1844 1 New York
Henry v. Lowell 16 Barb. 268 1853 1 New York
Pennsylvania Railroad v. Keiffer 22 Pa. 356 1853 1 Pennsylvania
Weaver v. Fegely & Brother 29 Pa. 27 1857 1 Pennsylvania
Martin v. Southern Ry. 51 S.C. 150 1897 1 South Carolina
Crawford v. Southern Ry. Co. 56 S.C. 136 1899 1 South Carolina
Cocke v. Garrett 66 Tenn. 360 1874 1 Tennessee
Avery v. Johnson 108 Tex. 294 1917 1 Texas
Dakan v. Dakan 125 Tex. 305 1935 1 Texas
Brooker v. Brooker 130 Tex. 27 1937 1 Texas
Lindsley v. Lindsley 139 Tex. 512 1942 1 Texas